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Post by angel007 on Feb 12, 2011 12:32:10 GMT -5
Dh and I both get $200/mo. We also get gas money, mine is 200/mo. I don't work outside the home. It's winter here, I'm a hibernating Bear in Winter, so I rarely spend but $50/mo. on gas, so I've averaged about $350./mo since late November...
I've been saving most of mine. Come Spring....well it'll be a whole 'nother story..
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Post by dcmetrocrab on Feb 12, 2011 23:57:54 GMT -5
Not married, living with SO. No kids. Everything is kept separate. We started out at $200/month each. I recently upped mine to $400 temporarily to cover replacing parts of my wardrobe. Allowance includes eating out, entertainment, etc. I have a separate line item for haircuts. $50/week felt tight for me, we really enjoy eating out, food is our hobby. I used to have my allowance at $25/week. It's slowly crept up over time. We make $190k combined.
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Post by restless on Feb 13, 2011 1:01:52 GMT -5
$0. money is tight. If there ever comes a day when we have enough income then we might give an "allowance" but it would also include the kids. No reason why the adults should be the only ones enjoying life. Because you are the ones that work???
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Post by cronewitch on Feb 13, 2011 4:27:30 GMT -5
$0. money is tight. If there ever comes a day when we have enough income then we might give an "allowance" but it would also include the kids. No reason why the adults should be the only ones enjoying life. Because you are the ones that work??? Read more: notmsnmoney.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=finance&action=display&thread=3251&page=2#ixzz1DpO8jO00Families are more like socialist governments, to each according to his need and from each according to his ability. It is fair for all members of a family to be treated somewhat the same without regard to who earns the money. A member who is too young to work, handicapped, unemployed or the family decided not to have work still should get what they need and some of what they want if the family can afford it as a family. When a family is poor they should all be poor and when they have more they should all benefit according need and family decisions. Parents should be the deciders since they are more mature than children. After they have met the needs and savings goal and have money left for wants they should allocate to each according to what each would like that they can fit in the budget. They may spend more on the children's want than the adult wants if they value things like letting the child go to summer camp or play in expensive sports but that is a family decision not based on which earned the money. Even among the adults in a household it isn't right for one to be much richer than the other. Say you had a handicapped adult who couldn't work in your family they shouldn't be told they don't get to have any money at all because they didn't earn it. If they got disability income that was less than 1/2 the household budget it would leave them without even enough for a pack of gum and quickly spend down their life savings to come up with the rest of their share. You might have one spouse be able to afford vacations, new cars, hobbies, nice clothing and the other that can't afford their half of joint bills. A coworker making about $16 an hour has 2 children with a handicapped man, he gets SSDI and the children get SSDI they are under 4 years old and don't work. The money should be dumped in one pot to support the family. He is home with the children and has more need for entertainment than she does being stuck in an apartment with toddlers all day. He and the children should be able to go out to a movie or rent a DVD even if they don't work. My ex was raised by a housewife and stepfather, since the step father earned all the money he constantly told them he worked so he deserved to eat better and if it wasn't for him they wouldn't have any food. He shopped for dinner food every night and would bring home steak for himself and hot dogs for them. When he wasn't home they didn't have food in the house. Her mother used to walk over and bring them bread and lunch meat for lunch. Her mother and father took him away from his mom and step dad when his real dad said they did that or he was sending him to boarding school after he ran away.
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Post by busymom on Feb 13, 2011 8:42:18 GMT -5
DH & I each have an allowance of $20 a week. Yes, I know, it's not much, but it's our "fun" money to use as we choose--he can save his up during the winter for golf when it gets nice, & I tend to use mine for "lunch with the girls". It's the only fund we are not accountable to each other for. Almost all other purchases are discussed (except for groceries & clothes for the kids).
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